intrahelical

English

Etymology

intra- +‎ helical

Adjective

intrahelical (not comparable)

1. Within a helix.
   • 2015 September 18, “Genetic Diversity and Natural Selection of the Plasmodium knowlesi Circumsporozoite Protein Nonrepeat Regions”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     In the present study, however, the nonrepeat regions was chosen for investigation because the central repeat region is overly diverse due to insertions/deletions during meiotic sexual recombination or intrahelical strand slippage during mitosis and sequence alignment of the repeat region is difficult and uncertain.